Our Planet Positive offering

There is enormous demand for environmental efficiency in our industry. By default, the mining industry is energy- and water-intensive. We provide our customers with durable, energy-efficient equipment and services for a long life-cycle.

To increase the size of our ecological handprint, we focuse on the positive impact on the environment and people through further growing our sustainable offering. The Planet Positive portfolio focuses on the most impactful technologies (>100) in the company’s current portfolio, specifically responding to the sustainability requirements of our customers in the aggregates, mining and metals refining industries.

The four focus areas of our sustainable offering and innovations are in energy efficiency and emissions, water efficiency, a leading offering in circularity and safe operations. This is where we can create the most value for our customers. 

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

R&D is in a key role in developing our industry towards a more sustainable future. In technology development, we focus on increasing resource efficiency. Our annual target starting in 2021, is that over 90% of our R&D projects has to set a target related to energy, emissions or water.  

We have a good offering for energy- and emission-efficient solutions for comminution, beneficiation and refining. Grinding is one of the most energy-intensive stages of minerals processing; better solutions are needed to overcome the challenges of degrading ore and the growing demand for minerals. For aggregate production, we also have energy-efficient crushers and a dual-power offering.

We reduce global CO2 emissions through our customers’ industrial processes. The high energy efficiency of our technologies used by our customers has a significant impact in reducing CO2 emissions. In mineral processing, we offer energy-efficient product options in material transport, size reduction, mineral separation and dewatering.

Water efficiency is an increasingly important topic for our customers. Water availability and minimizing water-related risks have become an increasing concern and cost factor for communities and businesses. We have solutions that significantly reduce impacts on the community and the environment.

Innovation is critical to circuit optimization. We have solutions to mitigate water-related environmental, health and safety, and societal risks in customer operations. These include our sustainable tailings solutions & tailings ponds conversion into resources.

For the fourth focus area of our sustainability offering, we have solutions to mitigate environmental, health and safety, and societal risks in customer operations.  

Metso Outotec's products are designed to meet all the relevant standards, norms and directives in the respective delivery countries. Our products are delivered with the appropriate information and instructions to ensure safe operation, services and maintenance. In addition, we offer a wide range of life cycle services to ensure that all the products in use will continue to meet existing and future requirements throughout their life cycle. Safety of our products is one of the key drivers in our research and development work.